firkin
Example Sentences
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He uses an antique wooden firkin once used for storing flour and sugar to sit on that the older French speaking duck hunters call a “bedon.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 21, 2020
In the flesh, Ruth Davidson, 37, is a firkin of fun, speaks with a machine-gun delivery and can hold her own.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2016
Mrs. Penn asks Logan to provide "candlesticks, and great candles, some green ones, and pewter and earthen basins, mops, salts, looking-glass, a piece of dried beef, and a firkin or two of good butter."
From William Penn by George Hodges
In the "Cruise of the Rover," in the heat of movement, when the young English sailors after their desperate fight are being dragged to judgment, drink is given them from "a great cool earthen firkin."
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
"Liar that thou art, Kerry—it would take a cask of one, and a firkin of the other to make up the necessary ointment!"
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
